Paul Green

Career Highlights

After graduating from the University of Toronto, Paul Green was head of the music department and conductor of the concert band at T.L. Kennedy Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, from 1955 to 1965. Concurrently, he served as conductor of the Salvation Army's Dovercourt Citadel Band in Toronto (1963–65) and taught at the Ontario Ministry of Education's Summer School of Music (1964–66).

In 1965 Green joined the faculty of music at the University of Western Ontario, where he taught brass and woodwind techniques and conducting, gave graduate courses in the psychology of music and the philosophy of music education, and served as chairman of the music education department (1969–79). He conducted the university's Symphonic Band (1969–70) and its Faculty of Music Brass Choir (1965–70).

From 1963 to 1965 Green was chairman of the Instrumental Music Curriculum Revision Committee which produced the report Intermediate and Senior Divisions Instrumental Music (Ontario Ministry of Education, 1967). He was also president of the Ontario Music Educators' Association (1964–65), the Ontario representative to the CAUSM (now Canadian University Music Society) Committee of Curricular Standards (whose work resulted in Standards (CAUSM, 1969)) and a member of the editorial committee for the CAUSM Journal from 1977 to 1981. Green was chairman of the Music Discipline Group of the Committee on Academic Planning of the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (1978–80). He began examining for the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music in 1965 and adjudicated at many competition festivals.

Green is the composer of Stephanos for band (Salvationist Publishing, 1978) and co-author and arranger, with Kenneth Bray, of the series of wind instrument instruction books Solos for Schools (GVT, 1978–81). Green has written articles for many educational publications and was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada and the Canadian Encyclopedia.